{"product_id":"bloodlands-europe-between-hitler-and-stalin","title":"Timothy Snyder: Bloodlands [2010] hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e* In the middle of Europe, in the middle of the twentieth century, the Nazi and Soviet regimes murdered fourteen million people in a zone of death between Berlin and Moscow.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e* These were the bloodlands - today's Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, western Russia and the eastern Baltic coast.\u003c\/b\u003e In a twelve-year period - 1933 to 1945 - as a result of deliberate polices unrelated to combat, an average of more than a million civilians were murdered annually. At the end of the Second World War the bloodlands fell behind the iron curtain, leaving their history in darkness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e* In this revelatory book Timothy Snyder offers a groundbreaking investigation of Europe's killing fields and a sustained explanation of the motives and methods of both Hitler and Stalin.\u003c\/b\u003e He anchors the history of Hitler's Holocaust and Stalin's Terror in their time and place and provides a fresh account of the relationship between the two regimes. Using scholarly literature and primary sources in all relevant languages, Snyder pays special attention to the testimony of the victims: the letters home, the notes flung from trains, the diaries found on corpses.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e* Brilliantly researched, profoundly humane, authoritative and original, \u003ci\u003eBloodlands  \u003c\/i\u003ere-examines the greatest tragedy in European history and forces us to rethink our past.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Snyder, Timothy","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":47755802837331,"sku":"XV80224081412","price":16.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/snyder-timothy-timothy-snyder-bloodlands-2010-hardback-xv80224081412-54735681192275.jpg?v=1716564906","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.pro\/products\/bloodlands-europe-between-hitler-and-stalin","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}